97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know – book review
97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know review will be a positive one. This style of books is currently my favorite. Might get another one from the series 🙂 It is bits and pieces of knowledge You can digest easily. Scattered across multiple disciplines teachings are of a principle design.
Book is technologically agnostic, meaning rules, law, principles and methodologies presented You can use with any framework or system. It is like the design principles. Great read, would recommend.
97 lessons to pick from
The book is all about best practices, system design, queues, asynchronouse communication and many more. You can easily read it day by day when You “meditate” 🙂 The book is spaning fundamental concepts like data lakes, warehouses, meshes, architecture patterns, SQL vs. NoSQL,observability and quality. Cloud, on prem and already obsolete (legacy)solutions are also starring in the literacy.
Buy print or thank the authors. It turns out it is free for online usage. The printed version does cost a bit.
97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know PDF to download from archive.org
Example from the book
Summary tl;dr
Get it… read it… enjoy the series ! No big blocks of unreadable small font with huge paragraphs. Very nicely delivered and published. 97 rules, on average less then 2 full pages for each “thing” giving around 200 pages of very pleasant read.
